A US broadband provider and a security services company have been accused of blocking emails relating to an anti-Iraq war protest.

American online activist David Swanson says the provider, Comcast, and security services company Symantec, blocked emails drawing attention to the so-called Downing Street memo, which activists have seized on as further proof that the Iraq war was planned well in advance. The leaked memo was first published in Britain's The Times newspaper.

Swanson, the founder of the AfterDowningStreet.org website, claims emails sent to and from his subscribers were blocked for a week as he tried to co-ordinate events around the United States. He said the events would have had a far bigger turn-out had the block not been in place.http://smh.com.au/articles/2005/07/26/1122143836194.htm...

Because they honestly think that they will gain something for their support. Little do they realize that they will get nothing, and that they will eventually suffer the same fate that they wish upon us who believe in freedom and democracy.

how do you know it was willful censoring and not a spam reduction measure?

i can't read the article without registering, and i won't be registering (as a spam-reduction measure).

i deal with symantec's Brightmail solution, and if spam parameters are not set correctly within it, you get a lot of false positives.

especially if you keep it too strict -and then any mail from anyone sending to more than one person can get caught in it.

I wouldn't be so quick to think that Comcast and Symantec are trying to stop democracy - there is entirely too much data flying back and forth across the world, for either company to be spending that much time analyzing people's mail. that's what computer filtering is for, and soemtimes that's a bad thing.

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